BONHEUR'S EARLY LIFE; BOHEMIAN WAYS, PRANKS AT SCHOOL, AND FIRST WORK.

Rosa Bonheur is one of those women who have become celebrated without making a noise. She has a vocation, and circumstances admitted of her following it quietly, and in the way that seemed best to her. Had she been born to greater prosperity, she would have been endowed with a marriage portion, handed over at 19 or 20 to a...View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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